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Pebble has made two major announcements this morning for its smart watch platform: iOS 7 notifications and its SDK 2.0 beta.

iOS 7 Notifications

A new Pebble iOS app update will be made available early next week to enable users to receive any notifications enabled in Notification Center. So that means any notification will now appear on your watch beyond texts and phone calls.

Also new today is the Pebble SDK 2.0 beta, which opens up four new APIs for developers:

PebbleKit Javascript

Accelerometer

Data Logging

Persistent Storage

The Pebble team says:

These new APIs allow developers to make Pebble apps that interface directly with the web (real-time weather, transit info, location check-in), access to the accelerometer (health/fitness monitoring and gesture-based remote control), log data when disconnected from the phone (health/fitness tracking), and store info on the watch (high scores, time zones, preferences).

New Partner Apps

Pebble has also announced four new partner apps coming soon from: GoPro, Yelp, iControl and Foursquare: